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Aodh's smile lit up. Soon he'd get to play with little baby Jem. Hopefully all night. He didn't get nearly enough time with Jem as he wished he could.

The smile strained slightly. Brother-in-law.

For one moment he'd forgotten about everything but the three of them. How right it felt having her rest against his chest and seeing a baby in her lap.

The journey back to reality was like a slap in the face with a rather heavy brick.

His silver eyes narrowed slightly at Gerhard. And when he spoke, it was through slightly clenched teeth. "He's of my kin." He was angrier at himself than Gerhard; but if Aodh was good at anything, it was guiding his own anger at someone else.

"If you believe that she compromised her integrity of a Vampire Sire, your opinion of her is not great enough."

The Lycan's voice was light and airy; the sort of almost cheerful voice one would use to insult someone. His German was thick, accented from an age of Germanic history before the blond man's time. Similar to the ancient accent that Alexis and Aeker carried. He had learned German in the same age that Alexis and Aeker had.

And what he spoke was truth. Aodh believed that being able to lay down ingrained hatreds and start a family proved a good thing. Alexis could manage the difficulties of raising a child with traits that she wasn't familiar with. In Aodh's mind, that aided her in her ability to raise a fledgeling with traits he knew a lot about.

Alexis didn't respond, she simply bit back her anger and looked down at Jem.

She stroked the boy's soft face gently and shook her head.

It didn't matter to her what Gerhard thought, she was happier this way.

Being feral like that, it only prolonged her suffering, this way she was finally moving on and starting a new family with people who cared about her instead of someone who only cared for her if she acted the way he desired.

"Shoulda dropped my pants and shown him the belt marks from last night then, huh? Really ruffled his feathers." Aodh wasn't above being childish like that. In fact he'd find it funny seeing the Vampire's anger over him being intimate with his fiancé.

Aodh shook his head. "Belt's not my thing. Aeker's sporting scratches and bitemarks at the moment."

Aodh's lips curled upwards into a crooked smirk. "Poor thing isn't sitting down comfortably tonight. I may have bitten his ass a little hard." Meaning that there was a rather large bruised and cut area that he had bitten and teased the previous night.

Not that Aeker had complained. Okay, he had complained. Quite a bit. And introduced the belt as punishment after chewing him out for holding him down and biting him without any warning.

But who really cared about that?

Aodh gave another little smirk. "Oh dear. We best not let him see Aeker at any time soon, then." The Vampire sported a fair few hickies closer to the back of his neck; obviously given by someone pressed against his back fucking him. Though Aodh also supported those same hickies.

"Aeker's a little bastard like that."

The Vampire was good at slipping away when you wanted him chained the most.